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This may be a big picture thing that for some reason after 5 years of using revit I somehow missed, so bear with me. I need to export all the sheets in a 2010 revit file so they can be plotted through autocad. I sucessfully export using the default settings. The issue i run into is in autocad. I want to plot out the sheets from autocad, but i need to pick a plot style or somehow change the settings so that the plots come out looking like i plotted them directly from revit. I have been unable to use standard AIA plot styles sucessfully, nothing comes out looking just like it did in revit. line weights and thicknesses get all screwed up. is there a simple answer i am missing?
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Have you set up all your options: HELP - Export Options- Linetype Scaling. Do you use the pcp file that Revit produces when it exports?
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haha, let me explain where I'm comming from and why i never knew what all those pcp files were for. I learned autocad in a formal setting briefly in highschool, i think it was something like 2000LT. In college, i drew everything by hand for 4 years then used revit my last year. Autocad is nothing to me but some little side program for drawing lines real fast, so i can import them into revit. I am now finding myself with the need to plot revit sheets from autocad. So i dont know where im supossed to call out a pcp file in autocad, in the plot settings i assumed you just pick one of the AIA .ctb files and the revit sheet would plot right, but it dosent.
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silly autocad solution was to run the plot styles wizard which allows you to import the pcp files and use them to create the ctb file.... so its working pretty well the only issue seeming to be the 'nplt' layers do plot; so i have had to go in and make all those layers non-plotting. Oh yeah and unreferenced view tags, I've had to delete all those.
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I am back to this a year later. is there still no simple answer for this? i export the dwg and in cad make a new plotstyle with the pcp that came from revit. when i do the actual plot, the line weights are not correct. in fact they are no where near correct. does anyone have an answer?
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I had a similar issue and found the ctb file in this article worked for me: http://revitit.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/printing-revit-exports-in-autocad/ .
download the file attached and drop it into the folder that opens when you click file>plotstyle manager.
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oops didnt attach for some reason: its called AIA LWT by Object.ctb and can be found here: http://seek.autodesk.com/product/latest/adsk/acad-arch/empty/boron6
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